This paper argues for thinking about religious commitments as different in kind from everyday ordinary understandings of the world. It argues against the straightforward assertion from the cognitive science of religion that belief in the supernatural is easy. That is, there is a way in which intuitions of invisible presence come very easily to people. Yet to sustain that belief commitment is hard, especially when the invisible other is omnipotent and benevolent. Here I suggest that it makes more sense to understand faith commitments as a kind of frame that coexists with everyday commitments. The approach shares much with Neil van Leeuwen’s understanding of religious commitments and factual commitments as being held with different kinds of cognitive attitudes. Here I suggest that people engage the faith frame the way engage play and fiction—except that in the case of faith, the commitment is a serious claim about the world.

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信仰框架：或者，信仰很容易，信仰很难

本文主张将宗教承诺视为与日常对世界的普通理解在种类上有所不同。它反对来自宗教认知科学的直接断言，即相信超自然是容易的。也就是说，有一种方式可以让人们很容易地感受到无形存在的直觉。然而，要维持这种信念承诺是很困难的，尤其是当无形的他人是无所不能和仁慈的时候。在这里，我建议将信仰承诺理解为一种与日常承诺共存的框架更有意义。这种方法与 Neil van Leeuwen 对宗教承诺和事实承诺的理解非常相似，因为它们具有不同的认知态度。